My new album ‘Good for Roses’  is going to be released via the Absolute Label (Universal/Sony) on 18 April 2025, it was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios, and produced by Kris Wilkinson Hughes (My Girl The River). There is an album release show at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells on 19th April, followed by a UK Spring tour.  

 

 ‘Good For Roses’,  is a personal one, songs about life-defining moments, good and bad mixed with songs about how I feel a lot of the time about myself and the world.  If there is one thing I am sure about now I am older, it is that out of hard times good things come. There is a line in the first track on the album, Bring me Love, ‘Shit is good for roses, we just have to hold our noses on the way’.   I wanted the title of this album to reflect the struggle and the joy.  There is a pink rose outside my kitchen window and, as the rest of the garden dies away and there is frost on the ground, it blooms. I love its resilience.”

 

“I wrote these 11 songs sat in my van, over the space of a year. I went to Real World Studios, my band came too: Andy Evans on guitars, John Brooker on bass, Roger Nunn on drums, Harry Whitty on keys, trumpet, trombone  and with Kris Wilkinson Hughes in the Producer’s chair we brought them to life. We brought in the fierce Aaron Catlow on the fiddle and Dan McConkey on sax and clarinet and, when my friend the wonderful Bella Collins, came for dinner one night we grabbed her for guest vocals.  Such a team effort all mixed and engineered by super talented head engineer at Real World, Katie May.”